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Employees and senior officials at the Citizens Research Council of Michigan have a documented history of supporting Democratic candidates, participating in Democratic primaries, and criticizing Republican political figures, raising questions about the organization’s frequent portrayal in the media as a neutral, nonpartisan authority.

A research memo based on federal campaign finance records found that all identified political donations made by CRC employees went to Democratic candidates or progressive political organizations.

The contributions totaled approximately $1,285 and benefited candidates including Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Rashida Tlaib, Elissa Slotkin, and Kristen McDonald Rivet. Donations also went to Justice Democrats and the No Dem Left Behind political action committee.

The review identified no contributions to Republican candidates or conservative political committees.

Political participation records cited in the memo also show a Democratic pattern among members of CRC’s senior staff.

CRC President Eric Lupher has reportedly participated in approximately twice as many Democratic primaries as Republican primaries. Research Director Craig Thiel participated in both Democratic primaries conducted in 2024, according to the records.

Vice President of Development Rhonda Parker and Communications Director Maureen McNulty Saxton have participated in Democratic primaries but have no identified history of voting in a Republican primary, the memo found.

Public comments by senior CRC personnel have also reflected opposition to prominent Republicans.

Lupher previously referred to President Donald Trump as “Mein Fuhrer Herr Trump.” Saxton has shared social media posts mocking Trump and accusing Republicans of making political arguments in “bad faith.”

CRC describes itself as a privately funded, nonprofit public affairs research organization that provides “factual, unbiased, independent information” on issues affecting Michigan.

News organizations frequently identify the council as nonpartisan when citing its research or criticism of state policymakers.

CRC’s financial support has also come from major philanthropic organizations frequently associated with progressive policy initiatives.

Publicly available records show that the Ford Foundation provided CRC with $375,000 between 2021 and 2024. The organization has also received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Kresge Foundation, the Skillman Foundation and the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation.

The Ford Foundation has separately faced scrutiny over grants made to entities in China. A Washington Examiner investigation reported that the foundation had provided nearly $10 million since 2020 to Chinese government entities and organizations with links to the Chinese Communist Party.

Those grants reportedly supported state-controlled universities, government agencies and programs connected to China’s international investment strategy.

Questions about CRC’s political background have become more significant as the organization has criticized Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall and the Republican-controlled House.

House Republicans have promoted their work on the state budget as an effort to reduce spending, eliminate unnecessary programs, and impose additional transparency requirements.

They have also pursued legislation intended to restrict entities associated with foreign adversaries, including China, from purchasing Michigan farmland. This important work has been undermined by the CRC’s reporting by Democrat donors.

The available records indicate that CRC is not institutionally detached from Michigan’s political debates. Far from it—its employees have overwhelmingly supported Democrats in the political activity identified by the research memo, while senior officials have publicly criticized Republican figures. The facts show that the CRC’s impartiality is little more than a front designed to detract from their left-wing partisan agenda.

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Minnesota’s radical gender experiment is now targeting the playroom.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported earlier this month that a controversial program developed at the University of Minnesota Medical School is preparing to make so-called “MyGender Dolls” available to educators, school counselors, clinicians, pediatricians, and mental-health providers working with children between the ages of four and ten.

The dolls, which mimic classic paper dolls but allow children to swap out genitals, reproductive organs, clothing, hairstyles, and accessories, are being marketed as a “therapeutic” tool “grounded in gender-affirming clinical practices.”

The paper dolls reportedly have gender-neutral names, including Sam, Rory, Avery, and Parker, according to the New York Post.

According to the project’s website, they are intended to help children ages 4–10 “visualize their anatomy and genders” and “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be.”

Prototypes have already been tested on young children. University researchers previously paid “transgender and gender diverse” kids ages 5–10 and their parents $20 to $60 to participate in sessions using the dolls.

The project originated at the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (formerly the Program in Human Sexuality).

It is now being commercialized as MyGender Dolls and made available to teachers, school counselors, pediatricians, and mental health providers.

According to the university’s 2024 annual report:

MYGENDER DOLLS: A TOOL FOR THERAPISTS

Several of our research and scholarship projects meld art and science. We have made substantial progress on the MyGender Dolls project, a set of therapeutic tools intended for licensed therapists to use with patients and their parents or caregivers, to help children who find it difficult to express themselves.

Research and development is ongoing, and has been made possible by generous grant and donation support. We used community-engaged approaches to revise both the dolls and the therapeutic tools that are used in conjunction with them. We are working with offices at the University in order to bring this innovation to clinical spaces!

The university’s medical school allegedly receives $15 million annually in state funding under Gov. Tim Walz’s administration, money earmarked to boost research capacity.

Walz himself received the institute’s inaugural “Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award” in 2023 and has been photographed smiling alongside one of the project’s co-founders.

The New York Post reported:

The University of Minnesota’s Medical School has been receiving $15 million annual funding from the state via Walz — cash earmarked to “increase the medical school’s research capacity” and “ensure its national prominence.”

But the school doesn’t report how much it funnels to its Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, which has a total research budget of $1.4 million, according to its 2025 annual report.

Walz, who’s pushed pro-transgender policies on the Midwestern state, was bestowed the institute’s inaugural “Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award” in 2023, a title created just for him.

The scandal-plagued governor was even pictured with a wide grin alongside Medical School Associate Professor Nic Rider — co-founder of MyGender Dolls, which is bringing the radical dolls to market.

Rider, a psychologist who specializes in children and teen transgender health, goes by they/them pronouns, according to a bio on the medical school’s website.

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US Central Command announced on Saturday that US forces disabled another oil tanker sailing toward Iran for violating the US Navy blockade of Iranian ports. 

Video from the mission released by CENTCOM shows US forces conducting a “verification boarding” on a Comoros-flagged tanker in the Arabian Sea and attacking a Mozambique-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Oman after it “attempted to violate the blockade multiple times.”

WATCH:

The disabled tanker is “no longer transiting to Iran,” and the Comoros-flagged tanker is “now continuing its journey,” CENTCOM announced.

US Central Command said in a statement on Saturday,

The U.S. naval blockade against Iran remains in full effect. As of July 25, CENTCOM has redirected 12 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 2 that didn’t comply, and boarded 2 to ensure total compliance.

Earlier today, U.S. forces completed a verification boarding aboard Comoros-flagged M/T Charminar in the Arabian Sea, and the tanker is now continuing its journey.

CENTCOM forces disabled Mozambique-flagged M/T Lavine in the Gulf of Oman, July 24, after the crew attempted to violate the blockade multiple times and ignored repeated warnings. The ship is no longer transiting to Iran.

American forces remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready.

Meanwhile, Iran said it stopped four tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz by firing “warning shots” on Saturday.  “Four vessels that had intended to transit through the southern area of the Strait of Hormuz via an illegal and unsafe route were stopped over the past 24 hours after warning shots were fired by the IRGC Navy,” the IRGC said on Saturday.

This comes after US forces on Thursday completed a 13th consecutive night of attacks against Iranian military capabilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz since the fighting resumed earlier this month.

Video from CENTCOM shows the most recent attacks from the nearly two-week-long airstrike campaign:

There were no new bombings on Friday, which would have been the 14th consecutive night of strikes.

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A Biden-appointed majority on the First Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Donald Trump a major setback Saturday, refusing to lift an injunction blocking key election-integrity provisions of his executive order in 23 states and the District of Columbia.

The three-judge panel denied emergency stay requests filed by the Trump administration and 12 Republican-led states, leaving in place a lower-court order that prevents the Department of Homeland Security from distributing federal citizenship lists and blocks the U.S. Postal Service from applying new mail-ballot requirements in the plaintiff states for elections held on or before November 3, 2026.

Judges Gustavo Gelpí and Julie Rikelman, both appointed to the First Circuit by Joe Biden, formed the majority.

Trump-appointed Judge Joshua Dunlap concurred in part and dissented in part, arguing that the states lacked standing to block DHS from merely providing citizenship information.

The ruling is not a final decision on the administration’s appeal. Instead, the 20-page court order denies the administration’s request to suspend the injunction while the appeal proceeds.

The administration could now seek emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Trump issued Executive Order 14399, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” on March 31 to enforce existing federal law that reserves federal elections exclusively for U.S. citizens and to bring basic accountability to the chaotic, fraud-prone mail-in ballot process.

The order directed DHS, working with the Social Security Administration, to compile state-by-state lists of confirmed American citizens who would be eligible to vote in upcoming federal elections. Those lists were scheduled to be transmitted to state election officials by September 4.

Trump’s order also instructed the USPS to create new safeguards for mail-in and absentee ballots, including uniquely serialized barcodes and state-provided lists identifying voters authorized to vote by mail.

Under the proposed system, the Postal Service would not transmit certain mail ballots unless the voter appeared on the appropriate state-specific participation list.

The order further directed the Justice Department to prioritize investigations and potential prosecutions involving election officials who knowingly issue federal ballots to people who are not legally eligible to vote.

In other words, the Trump administration sought to use existing federal citizenship data, modern tracking technology, and the Postal Service’s nationwide infrastructure to help ensure that only eligible American citizens participate in federal elections.

Naturally, Democrat officials raced to court.

A coalition consisting of California, Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, through Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro, along with the District of Columbia, sued to stop the order.

Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ultimately declared Sections 2 and 3 of Trump’s order “ultra vires” and in violation of the separation of powers. Her final judgment prohibited federal officials from implementing those sections in the plaintiff jurisdictions for the 2026 elections.

The Trump administration and 12 intervening states, Alabama, Missouri, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas, asked the First Circuit to freeze Talwani’s injunction while the appeal moved forward.

The Biden-appointed majority refused.

First Circuit Judges Gelpí and Rikelman rejected the DOJ’s emergency motion. Biden-appointees claimed the Democrat-led states would suffer “pocketbook injuries” over envelope costs and “credible threats of prosecution” if federal law was enforced

Notably, the administration’s emergency motion focused on standing and ripeness. It argued that the states’ lawsuit was premature because DHS and USPS were still developing their final implementation plans.

The majority responded that the approaching election deadlines had already forced states to spend money, divert staff and prepare for potential changes.

“The Plaintiff States have no practical choice but to respond to the EO now,” the majority wrote.

The judges also cited the possibility that election officials could face investigations or prosecution if ballots were issued to people missing from DHS’s admittedly incomplete citizenship lists.

That reasoning effectively allows Democrat-run states to claim “injury” merely because they must prepare to comply with election-integrity safeguards months before a federal election.

The majority also claimed the administration had failed to establish that allowing two different mail-ballot systems, one for the plaintiff states and another for the rest of the country, would create irreparable operational confusion for the Postal Service.

The injunction does not prevent the Trump administration from implementing the order in states that did not join the lawsuit. It also does not prevent federal agencies from preparing to use the system nationwide in elections held after November 3.

This means the ruling could force USPS to operate a bizarre two-tier election-mail system in 2026: enhanced safeguards in participating states and the old system in the Democrat-led states that sued to block them.

Judge Joshua Dunlap rejected the majority’s conclusion concerning the DHS citizenship lists.

Dunlap pointed out that Section 2(a) merely directs DHS to provide information to state officials. It does not require states to remove anybody from their voter rolls or take any action based on the lists.

“Section 2(a) thus merely orders the provision of information to States,” Dunlap wrote. “It does not order States, including Plaintiffs, to take any action.”

Because the states were not required to do anything with the citizenship lists, Dunlap concluded that their alleged injury was “speculative and hypothetical.”

Dunlap would have lifted the injunction against the compilation and distribution of those lists. He also would have allowed the Justice Department to prioritize enforcement of existing federal laws prohibiting noncitizen voting.

However, Dunlap agreed that the injunction should remain in place against the USPS portion of the order because several plaintiff states had already purchased ballot envelopes that might not comply with the proposed requirements.

Separate D.C. Circuit Victory Remains

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Trump administration recently won a separate battle before the D.C. Circuit involving the USPS mail-ballot rule.

In that case, the D.C. Circuit stayed an order issued by Judge Emmet Sullivan in litigation involving the NAACP and a settlement agreement left over from the 2020 election.

The D.C. Circuit concluded that USPS had made a strong showing that it was likely to succeed and could suffer irreparable harm if prevented from finalizing the rule before the November midterms.

Saturday’s First Circuit ruling involves a different lawsuit filed directly by the coalition of states. It does not overturn the D.C. Circuit’s decision, but it leaves the Trump administration unable to apply key portions of the election order in nearly half the country while the appeal continues.

The First Circuit majority has not yet issued a final merits decision affirming that Trump’s executive order is unconstitutional. It merely refused to pause Judge Talwani’s injunction.

The Justice Department previously warned that it could be forced to seek intervention from the Supreme Court if the First Circuit refused to grant relief, according to Reuters.

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Jack Smith’s lawyers responded to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s criminal referral.

On Wednesday evening House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) criminally referred former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for prosecution.

In a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Chairman Jordan said Jack Smith’s testimony included “intentionally false statements designed to obstruct the Committee’s oversight.”

“All individuals have an obligation to comply with a duly authorized congressional inquiry. Mr. Smith, a former public servant, is no different,” Jordan wrote in a letter to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday. “Yet his testimony included intentionally false statements designed to obstruct the Committee’s oversight.”

“His conduct can only be understood as an effort to thwart the Committee’s inquiry by intentionally making false statements and representations before Congress,” Jordan added, according to Fox News.

At issue is Jack Smith’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee last December.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley last Tuesday revealed that Jack Smith spied on 44 members of Congress and actually read their text messages.

Jack Smith lied when asked if the records he requested included the contents of calls and texts.

WATCH:

A defiant Jack Smith pushed back on Jim Jordan on Friday.

“Mr. Smith agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee fully cognizant of the risk that President Trump’s Justice Department would try to find something in his testimony to serve as the basis for a criminal charge,” Jack Smith’s attorneys wrote in the letter obtained by Fox News.

“This risk existed not because Mr. Smith would make a false statement, but because President Trump has repeatedly ordered that Mr. Smith be prosecuted and jailed. That is not the rule of law. And it contravenes the principles that are critical to the vitality of our democracy.”

Jack Smith’s attorneys argued that the former special counsel was referring to the toll record subpoenas during the line of questioning.

“During his testimony, Mr. Smith provided truthful, responsive answers and candidly discussed his work as Special Counsel. This referral reflects a chilling eagerness to weaponize the justice system by attacking a career, nonpartisan public servant who faithfully and fearlessly performed his duties by following the facts and the law,” the lawyers wrote, according to Fox News.

“The toll record subpoenas that were the focus of those questions did not call for the content of text messages. The questions and answers preceding and following these exchanges also make clear that the focus of the questions was on the toll records subpoenas. Notably, the referral letter does not contest the truthfulness of Mr. Smith’s answers.”

Chairman Jordan blasted Jack Smith during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday morning.

WATCH:

pic.twitter.com/dYICd5CT65

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 23, 2026

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President Trump took a moment during his White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner speech on Friday to troll the Iranian Supreme Leader and highlight one of his accomplishments that “the media never talks about.”

Trump tossed the political correctness that the left-wing media complex is accustomed to out the window, telling them that Iran is “now being run by a gay dictator.”

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, is believed to be a gay man. The leader of the brutal theocratic regime is ironically believed to have had a long-term sexual relationship with his male childhood tutor.

Trump is said to have laughed out loud when briefed by intelligence officials, while others in the room also found it hilarious, according to sources who spoke to the New York Post.

“While I have all of the press here in one place, I have to say that we’re having an amazing load of accomplishments that the media never talks about,” Trump said.

“For example, under my administration, a once-feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled.”

Trump continued, “Their former leaders have been removed, and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions.”

WATCH:

US forces continued strikes against Iran this week, completing 13 consecutive nights of attacks against Iranian military capabilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz since the fighting resumed earlier this month.

Video from CENTCOM shows the most recent attacks from the nearly two-week-long airstrike campaign:

Meanwhile, the Supreme Leader hasn’t even been seen publicly since the start of the military conflict between Iran and the US.

The 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei is believed to have been injured, possibly critically, since the first US strikes on February 28, which killed his father and other top Iranian officials.

Notably, Khamenei did not even attend his own father’s funeral earlier this month.

 

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On Saturday morning. Radio host Sid Rosenberg joined Fox News and went scorched earth on far-left radical NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, holding nothing back.

Recently, Mamdani sauntered up to the mic like a bantam rooster to boast that his administration was actively considering whether he could direct police to detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he travels to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly.

In an interview on the New York Times podcast The Interview, Mamdani said Netanyahu “belongs in the Hague,” calling him a war criminal charged by the International Criminal Court over the Gaza war.

President Donald Trump said Netanyahu “will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.” Netanyahu responded on Rosenberg’s program that Mamdani is with “the terror actors.”

Mamdani has maintained an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, and pro-Palestinian stance, and now appears to support the IRGC.

Read more:

Mamdani’s Antisemitism Is the Glue That Holds His Pink-Jihad-Socialist Coalition Together

Rosenberg said on Fox, “People are very nice people, but trying to talk to Mayor Mamdani is like trying to talk to the IRGC, okay? This guy is a terrorist. That’s the bottom line. I’ll say it. You don’t want to say it. I’ll say it. He’s a terrorist. He’s a jihadist. He hates the Jewish people. He hates America. He hates the Italian people. He hates the Irish people. He hates the German people. Unless you’re Muslim, Mayor Mamdani has no use for you.”

“He is a horrible person and maybe has perpetrated the worst American and Jewish hate in the history of this country. Those two people stabbed the other day in the Upper East Side of New York City. That blood is on his hands. That blood is on your hands, Mayor Mamdani.”

“We got to find a way to get this guy out of here. Maybe Dr. Naomi Wolf is right. Maybe that election wasn’t what it looked like on paper. Maybe he really didn’t win. But either way, this guy is the worst thing to happen to New York politics, maybe in the history of our state.”

“He’s a lowlife.”

Fox News’ Griff Jenkins appeared to bristle at the blistering honesty and cut in, “I mean, I think you may be a bit over your skis in calling him, labeling him a terrorist, and you’re probably getting flagged.”

“But let me ask you this, because the New Yorkers elected this guy. They knew everything about him before. Like, this is predictable. You talk about predictability. This is a predictable—”

Rosenberg shot back, “Let me ask you this. The Hamas guys that are in Qatar right now, they’ve never put on a bullet— excuse me, an explosive vest. They’ve never shot anybody. Would you consider those guys terrorists? Because I would.”

“Okay, so his ideologies are in line with the terrorists.”

“Mahmoud Khalil is a campus terrorist. You don’t have to kill somebody to be a terrorist. You have to share the ideology.”

“That’s what this guy is. He’s no better than the person who actually goes and shoots somebody because he respects that person. He likes that person. That makes him one of them.

Watch:

The full segment on FOX this morning where I went after @NYCMayor. It includes the back and forth with me and @GriffJenkins which eventually led to FOX apologizing twice FOR me after I left! By the way I like Griff a lot:) pic.twitter.com/hef9LMRCoT

— Sid Rosenberg (@sidrosenberg19) July 25, 2026

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For the first time since July 13, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) did not report new airstrikes against Iran, and Tehran also appeared to have refrained from launching new attacks as the conflict entered its 148th day on Saturday.

President Donald Trump said on Friday afternoon that the U.S. is “talking to [Iran] right now. I think they’re getting more and more serious as the days go by.” Trump added that the U.S. military is “locked and loaded and ready to go, but we’re talking to them.” 

The Houthis claimed responsibility for overnight attacks on two oil facilities in the Saudi towns of Jizan and Yanbu. According to the Houthis, the missile and drone attacks—which damaged buildings and infrastructure belonging to the kingdom’s Saudi Aramco oil conglomerate—were intended as retaliation for recent Saudi strikes against Yemen’s Hodeidah port and Kamaran Island. Videos posted to social media showed fires from the attacks still raging on Saturday. Saudi Arabia on Saturday launched new airstrikes against Yemen in response.

The Houthis also reaffirmed their “maritime embargo” against Saudi Arabia, and warned they may expand operations in the coming days (in a video released to social media, they used the phrases “escalation for escalation” and “blockade for blockade”).

Seeking to distance Tehran from the Houthi-Saudi conflict, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that those hostilities “cannot be attributed to Iran” and are “rooted in old disputes.”

The price of Brent Crude oil closed at $98.38 on Friday. AAA reported the national average price of regular gas stood at $4.11 on Saturday.

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Jesse Kelly of “The First” and Senior Communications Advisor for Truth Social, Katie Zacharia, discussed the decline of California, particularly the city of Los Angeles.

Kelly and Zacharia also talked about the deportation of illegal aliens and discussed the upcoming midterms and the possibility of losing the House and Senate to the Democrat party.

Kelly and Zacharia also discussed the potential candidates for the 2028 Presidential elections for both parties.

“Do we have a secret deportation court now? Please tell me the answer is yes,” Kelly asked.

“The answer is yes. We have had this deportation court since 1996, and it’s designated for very special circumstances when you have a terrorist who, and their family members, who, if by releasing this information public, it would put the investigation and everything around it, into jeopardy,” Zacharia said.

“There is a reason for this court. It is not arbitrary. It is actually very intentional, and it is in the best interest of the United States to keep a lot of these terrorists and the investigations surrounding them, confidential,” Zacharia continued.

“Let’s shift gears to the possible negative front, Katie. It’s well documented that Barack Obama counted rejecting people at the border as deportations,” Kelly said.

“Rejecting someone at the border is not deporting somebody,” Kelly continued.

“The numbers we want to focus on for our sake because President Trump has decisively secured our border. We have an extremely active CBP and CBP air and Marine operation,” Zacharia said.

“What we really want to focus on are the interior numbers, interior enforcement numbers which is what ICE is doing,” Zacharia continued.

“I live in California Jesse. I live in a sanctuary state and a sanctuary city. I fled Brentwood, because which is proper LA, but I fled because it became uninhabitable for many of the reasons that people are complaining about having illegal aliens in your city,” Zacharia explained.

“What is important is the midterms because I really don’t want to see Democrats take back the House of Representatives and God forbid the United States Senate, but the poll numbers do not look good for us,” Kelly said.

“We won the House, the Senate and all seven swing states, and yet, we are sitting on our hands when we have an opportunity,” Zacharia said.

“I don’t think AOC is going to be the nominee, but I’m not a nutball Democrat who votes in that primary,” Kelly said.

“They have hit a new low if AOC is their top contender,” Zacharia said.

“If it’s AOC, I think that’s a gift to the Republican party, yet again just like a similar to Kamala because we have amazing candidates across the spectrum. We have JD Vance, we have Marco Rubio, we have a potential Ron DeSantis,” Zacharia continued.

Watch:

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